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Last year, The Sunday Times reported that actor Bruce Willis was thinking about suing Apple over the ownership rights of his vast collection of digital music. Apparently disgruntled over Apple’s licensing agreement, Willis was rumored to be discussing with lawyers whether he could set up a trust to pass his “vast collection” of music along to his children. All of this proved unfounded of course, when Willis’ wife, Emma Heming-Willis, tweeted “It’s not a true story.” Nevertheless, media outlets were abuzz, saying the exaggerated reporting did “raise potentially significant issues about ownership of digital music.”

What tends to frustrate people about iTunes, and other digital platforms, is that users are essentially leasing their music library, with downloads subject to Apple’s licensing restrictions that prevents sharing and duplication. Services such as Spotify have stepped in to fill the gap by charging a monthly fee to access its vast, searchable music database. Users then link to Facebook and “share” playlists, songs, and albums with their friends. But for some, digital interfaces still leave too many intangibles. Perhaps due to those frustrations, a growing subsection of album purchasers are reverting to physical formats, particularly vinyl records.

Neil Young’s autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, contains a vitriolic diatribe about the unquestionable sound quality of vinyl over digital. He muses that the return of quality sound would present music as a deeper more meaningful experience rather than “a cool pastime or a toy.” Young’s insight may explain why 2012 marked the fifth straight year of record LP sales, totaling 4.6 million. While that may pale in comparison to the 1.7 billion in overall album equivalent music sales, its 17.7% growth trounces the overall category’s 3.1% increase even beating the growth in digital albums, up 14.1%. Indeed when the Consumer Electronics Association projects 40% growth in turntable sales this year, the trend seems to have legs.

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